About the Program

The Honors Program welcomes highly motivated students who demonstrate academic excellence. Participants in the Honors Program enjoy advanced levels of inquiry, smaller class sizes and seminar style instruction in Honors sections of College Studies courses. Honors offers opportunities to take advantage of co-curricular experiences in the form of field trips, guest lecturers, etc. that help interpret the course material.

Available Honors Courses

Honors courses are generally in Humanities, Social Science and upper level liberal arts seminars. Incoming honors students would be given permission to take existing PhilaU honors courses and participate in special honors projects.